A mixture of fart and sulfur. It was so bad I could puke!
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A client that apparently didn't took a bath for a long long time. The person's smelled like piss, sweat and dirt. It was horrible. I don't know how I survived the encounter because the person wanted to talk forever. God bless I'm far away from that position now.
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A rabbit necropsy that the vet did while I was on shift. I've been around numerous dog necropsies, but that was my first rabbit.
I almost went home, the smell was so horrific. Smells don't usually make me vomit, but that one did.
Never again, I hope.
Was it because of whatever killed the rabbit or does dead rabbit just stink? I've eaten the meat before and I know it's a bit gamey, but I wasn't involved in the prep of the uncooked meat. I figured as a herbivore it wouldn't be that stinky?
It just stinks, and I'm not sure why that is. The vet said that they always have an awful smell.
In comparison, I didn't even notice when we'd do a necropolis on a dog or a cat. It's that bad
Given they're poo factories, I wonder if the rapid processing of food means that their organs and stomach acid etc is more hard core?
Maybe? I was just a receptionist, so I don't know much about it, but that sounds legitimate enough to me, so let's go with it.
I grew up in West Africa in the 80, and there was a lot assaulting your nostrils. The markets with dried fish, the open sewage trenches in the city, rotting roadkill.
But the very worst experience was when I was trying to cross over a bridge during some festival. The bridge was packed with people, who were either heavily perfumed to mask the BO, whose deodorant gave up or who just went a few days without bathing. So we were all there together profusely sweating in the tropical sun, and I was just tall enough so my nose was at armpit height.
Or no, a buried memory surfaces. You may know that natural latex drips out rubber trees, and that they spritz ammonia into the latex to keep it liquid? Now imagine a plantation the size of a city where everything stinks of ammonia. And then a factory that smells of burnt piss?
A dead body that had been sitting in the Sahel desert for a few days. That smell still haunts me.
The body odor of a friend who got out of bed when I was crashing at his house. I wanted to throw up on the spot, it was awful. I'm not sure what it was, but it smelled like he hadn't showered in months but he didn't smell like that the previous day.
He probably hasn't changed his sheets, so the surprising amount of swear you she in bed, along with the considerable amount of dead skin, bacteria, hair, and skin oils are causing seriously bad BO.
There's a reason why I have a waterproof bed protector. Wash the sheets ever week or two weeks, wash the bed protector every couple. Your bed won't smell musty or get bad dust mites that way.
He probably hasnโt changed his sheets
That's what I thought, but they honestly didn't smell bad at all. I remember they were odorless which really threw me for a loop. I wonder if he had some unknown condition or shat himself while asleep or something. But I'll never know because we stopped being friends for other reasons. *sad noises*
Was it like, a body odor smell? Or a different smell?
This was a few years ago so my smell memory is shaky, but I think it was body odor? The thing is he got up so fast and rushed to the bathroom so it may have been something else, or maybe it was from the embarrassment
Meanwhile, I was trying no to make noise while gagging the ha hardest I've ever gagged in my life lol
The smell of human bodies in a formaldehyde soup at a 3rd world country medical universities anatomy lab.
This is why context is important.
Many years ago, I went to a plant manufacturing cooking oil. We were installing new fatty acid deodorizers. Damn, they needed them.
Pulp and paper plants are pretty nasty; and food processing plants with wet/rotting grains are vile. I used to get highly amused by auditors puking. Raw sewage generally smells better - lol.